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2014 Annual Conference: Cultivating eBusiness for Global Success AgGateway Global Network Continuing the Vision Rod Conner November 2014

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2014 Annual Conference: Cultivating eBusiness for Global Success

AgGateway Global NetworkContinuing the Vision

Rod Conner

November 2014

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AgGateway Vision

AgGateway will be the recognized

international source for enabling the

use of information and communication

technologies (i.e. eBusiness)

for agriculture.

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What’s the big idea?

To enable the entire agriculture community to use eBusiness to exchange information to:

• Improve business processes

• Help deliver excellent customer service

• Streamline the supply chain

• Improve agricultural production

• Enhance food safety

• Support sustainable agricultural practices throughout the world.

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Foundations: Why eBusiness?

• More efficient and effective processes• Streamline production and the supply chain

• Process business messages more quickly, enhancing customer service

• Fewer errors

• Improved inventory visibility

• Improved traceability and food safety

• Bottom line: Sustainability and profitability

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Foundations: Why eBusiness now?

• Cloud computing

• Mobile computing

• Shifts in enterprise architecture best practices

• Shifts in development best practices

• Standards wars have subsided

• Changing user expectations

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Foundations: Global eBusiness

• Trade has been transnational for millennia, but expectations are changing

• Global organizations want to leverage investments

• Today’s internet-based collaboration tools

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AgGateway North America: Key Principles

• Key founding principles: To help enable members implement eBusiness technologies to more effectively address Business Pressures caused by• Increasing Operational Complexity

• Increasing Regulatory Requirements

• International and Domestic market Pressures

• Key operational principles:• Focus on implementation with bottom-line results

• Council autonomy

• Industry-wide collaboration

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AGGATEWAY GLOBAL NETWORK CONCEPT

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Vision and Mission

• Vision

• Through its regional member organizations, AgGateway Global Network will be the primary source for enabling eBusiness in Agriculture.

• Mission

• To promote and expand the implementation of eBusiness standards and guidelines in Agriculture globally.

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Global Realities in Agriculture

• Customers and suppliers everywhere expect immediate, accurate information;

• There is continued streamlining of the global supply chain;

• Markets are more volatile – and more global;

• Food safety and traceability are business imperatives throughout the world; and

• Agriculture will need to produce more food with fewer resources through precision agriculture, sustainability, and better technology.

• Establishing eBusiness both regionally and globally is one of several critical elements for successfully addressing all of these challenges.

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Global Companies, Global Opportunities

• Recurring conversations at AgGateway North America meetings

• The AgGateway Global Network concept

• Global Application of regional success, and sharing success across regions

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A Path to Achieving Global Collaboration

• Sharing and promoting what has worked:• AgGateway North America’s collaborative approach,

• organizational structure, and

• intellectual property with other regions of the world may be the best way to achieve the goal.

• Establishing similar groups in other regions • so that agricultural operations in those regions could establish their own

priorities based on their regional needs.

• Creating a global coordination organization • to promote global collaboration,

• assist with the formation of new organizations, and to

• coordinate use of global agricultural standards/guidelines and implementation.

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AgGateway Global Network Goal

• The overall goal of this internationalization initiative is to promote and establish global collaboration and coordinated use of global agricultural eBusiness standards, guidelines and implementation processes.

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AgGateway NA Collaborative Associations

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All Regions have “Best Practices” to contribute

• Every region has ideas to share, for example• Europe

• Ahead of most regions in traceability and food safety

• Leader in developing standards

• CRISTAL in the Crop Protection segment

• Collaboration and leadership in Precision Ag

• North America • AgGateway NA, strong on implementation and collaboration promotion

• Successful supply chain streamlining projects in Crop Protection, Crop Nutrition, Seed, etc.

• Collaboration and leadership in Precision Ag

• Global companies want consistent transaction standards and processes

• Economies of scale for service providers

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AgGateway – A Model for Global Collaboration?

AgGatewayNorth

America

Council x

Council Y

Council z

Council A

Council B

Council C

Council D

Councils:Ag RetailAllied Providers (systems & Software developers and service providers)Crop NutritionCrop ProtectionFeedGrainOrnamental HorticulturePrecision AgricultureSeed

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AgGateway Global Network

AgGateway Global

Network

AgGateway“North

America”

AgGateway“South

America”

AgGateway“Asia

Pacific”

AgGateway -Europe

Australian eBusiness

Consortium

AgGateway South

America

Council x

Council Y

Council z

Council A

Council B

Council C

Council D

Regional Structure(s)Global Structure

REGIONS:Europe/Middle East/Africa

Asia Pacific

North America

South America

CONCEPT DIAGRAM

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2014 Goals

• Incorporate and fund the global coordination organization as a non-profit entity.

• Identify core groups in two regions outside of North America and formally communicate the global eBusiness collaboration concept to them.

• Least two members in AGN by January 2015 (at least one newly formed organization and AgGateway).

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Progress

• Incorporation has been completed

• Initial Board of directors has been appointed• 4 from Europe

• BASF, SAP, Yara, and First for Farming

• 4 from North America

• Syngenta, Simplot, Tessenderlo – Kerley, AgGateway

• Bylaws have been approved

• 3-year Pro-forma budget developed

• Capital campaign beginning

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Progress

• 2014 Meetings• June – at Yara’s office in Paris

• September – at CropLife International in Brussels

• November – Web Meeting scheduled for 22 November

• 24 Companies have been involved in these meetings (see next slide)

• Formation of AgGateway – Europe organization has begun

• Two working groups formed• Organizational Working Group to form legal entity

• Communications Working Group to reach out to Ag companies throughout Europe.

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AgGateway - Europe

• Adaptris / F4F Agriculture• Agri-Intranet• AGCO• AgroConnect• AgroEdi Europe• BASF• Bayer• Cargill UK• DOW AgroSciences • DuPont• ForFarmers• John Deere• KPS Business Transformation

• Kverneland Group• KTBL • KWS Mais GmbH• Monsanto• Radar Automation N.V.• SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG• Solutions Direkt GmbH • Syngenta Crop Protection AG• TransWide Belgium N.V • Yara International ASA• Wageningen UR LEI

(Current AgGateway members in bold)

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Progress – Next Steps

• Meeting with South American Ag retail representatives in New Orleans (at ARA) December 1st

• Sao Paulo meeting week of January 19, 2015

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Want to get involved/support?

AgGateway Global Network

Rod Conner

President/Executive Director

Office/Mobile: +1 804-363-9120

[email protected]

www.aggatewayglobal.net

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